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06 Oct 00:28
Tonight in Music: Old Light, Laura Veirs, Friends and Friends of Friends, & More
by Ned Lannamann
OLD LIGHT, KELLEY STOLTZ, ERIC D. JOHNSON
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Read our article on Old Light.
LAURA VEIRS, KARL BLAU
(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) A few weeks ago, Laura Veirs released a stunning new record in the form of the potent, adventurous Warp and Weft, and tonight she concludes her US tour with a homecoming show at Ye Olde Doug Fir. With some songwriters, you can clearly see the gap between their art and their craft—but with Veirs, they're one and the same. NED LANNAMANN
FRIENDS AND FRIENDS OF FRIENDS VOL. 6 RELEASE SHOW: BRAINSTORM, WOODEN INDIAN BURIAL GROUND, THE WE SHARED MILK, HOLIDAY FRIENDS, PHILIP GRASS
(Star Theater, 13 NW 6th) The sixth volume of Tender Loving Empire's Friends and Friends of Friends is a star-studded compilation—tracks by local favorites Genders, Charts, and Wild Ones are joined by out-of-towners like Ash Reiter, Social Studies, and Delicate Steve, to make up one huge, double-disc playlist that will keep you fueled for hours. This night hosts a lineup of champions, and offers a glimpse into the variety and quality of taste that the TLE label represents. The newest band to the roster, Holiday Friends, begins the evening of Pacific Northwest rock, later capped off by Brainstorm, who headlines with their characteristic tropic-bounce, sweet-pop sounds that will surely lead into late-night after-parties. RACHEL MILBAUER
NO JOY, HEAVY HAWAII
(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) No Joy's last few trips to Portland have seen them playing the role of a supporting act, and frankly, the band's loud and entrancing blend of noise pop is not very well suited to open a show. That's because when Jasmine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd stop singing and put down their guitars, you're going to feel the need for a long walk and some fresh air. The stunning harmonies and melodic moments buried within the sheer volume take aim directly for the back of your brain, and the strong songwriting will continue to haunt you, long after your ears stop ringing from all the feedback and distortion. Tonight, No Joy gets the headlining spot that its music lends itself to. Rightfully so; the band's excellent second album from earlier this year, Wait to Pleasure, has placed them at the forefront of a wide pack of current-day shoegaze-influenced acts. CHIPP TERWILLIGER
ARANYA, BLACK WITCH PUDDING, ORDER OF THE GASH
(The Know, 2026 NE Alberta) Aranya is one of the most bizarre bands you're likely to come across. Arriving at a crusty crossroads of operatic prog-metal that often nibbles at the rinds of the fantasy genre, Aranya's new double EP Friction/Refraction is at least an adventurous undertaking. The Friction half of the combo is described as "four songs describing sexuality through heat metaphors." Refraction, then, is "five songs of reflection and rejuvenation." As far as double concept EPs go, Aranya may have the market cornered. Musically, there are moments of strange greatness, as in Refraction's Eastern European-swathed "Chicory Key" and "Sisyphus," a noble exploration into carnival metal-lite. Quoting Hunter S. Thompson seems appropriate in reference to this release, beg pardon: "A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." RYAN J. PRADO
DJ QUIK, SUGA FREE, COOL NUTZ, CHILLEST ILLEST
(Roseland, 8 NW 6th) Rapper, manager, and host of the Northwest Breakout show (the only mainstream radio hiphop show in town), Cool Nutz has been active in Portland’s hiphop scene since 1992. His sound is much like the regional underground hiphop artists he plays on his Sunday night show, full of innovative splicing and sampling, and always the freshest of beats. He’ll be opening for Suga Free and DJ Quik, who is just beginning to play again after a six-year hiatus from his Platinum career. Between his hiphop show, hosting Portland’s only hiphop festival, managing his own record label, and recording and playing shows, Cool Nutz is the breath of fresh, funky air keeping Portland’s rap flame alive. ROSE FINN
INSANITY, MITOCHONDRION, ANHEDONIST, GRAVEHILL, WEREGOAT, DIRE OMEN
(Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash) Sometimes, metal shows can be scary. Not like in a scared-for-your-personal-safety way, but in a pit-of-your-stomach, ominous, impending-doom kind of way. For the next two nights, Dark Descent Records has put together a showcase of 10 bands who specialize in aural terror. The highlights (or darks) on Friday include the crawling death metal of Sempiternal Dusk, and the evil, bottom-feeding brutality of Portland's Ritual Necromancy. On Saturday, Seattle's Anhedonist will provide a crushing doom/death dirge, while Portland's Weregoat and Victoria, BC's Mitochondrion will twist your bowels with chaotic riffage and blast beats. Don't be scared, it's only metal. ARIS WALES
06 Oct 00:26
Nation's Top SEAL: SEALs Better Than Ninjas
"Dear Admiral McRaven," the handwritten letter from 6-year-old Walker Greentree began. "When I grow up I want to be a SEAL too, but can you tell me who is quieter -- SEALs or Ninjas? Also, how long can you hold your breath for?"
06 Oct 00:26
Google is building Chrome OS straight into Windows 8
by Tom Warren
Google unveiled its Chrome Apps initiative recently to launch apps that exist outside of the browser and extend its reach into more of a platform, but it looks like the company has a whole lot more planned. Over the past few weeks, Google has been updating its developer version of the Chrome browser to run what's essentially Chrome OS within Windows 8's "Metro" mode.
Chrome traditionally runs on the desktop in Windows 8, but you can set it to launch within the Windows 8 Start Screen into a special "Metro-style" mode. The new updates are very different from the existing stable channel version of Chrome in Windows 8 that simply presents a fullscreen browser. In the latest dev channel release the UI and functionality is identical to Chrome OS. There's a shelf with Chrome, Gmail, Google, Docs, and YouTube icons that can be arranged at the bottom, left, or right of the screen. Like Chrome OS, you can create multiple browser windows and arrange them using a snap to the left or right of the display or fullscreen modes. An app launcher is also available in the lower left-hand corner.
While the Chrome browser acts as a Windows 8 application, it's using a special mode that Microsoft has enabledspecifically for web browsers. The software maker allows browsers on Windows 8 to launch in its "Metro-style" environment providing they're set as default. The apps themselves aren't listed in the Windows Store and they're still desktop apps, but the exception allows them to mimic Windows 8 apps and access the app contracts and snapping features of the OS. While Chrome will obviously run in this mode on Windows 8, Microsoft does not permit this type of behavior on Windows RT.
Google's true Trojan horse
At the moment Chrome's new mode on Windows 8 is a little buggy and it crashes occasionally, but it's clear where Google is heading. While Chrome Apps may have appeared to be Google's Trojan horse, a Chrome OS running inside Windows 8 is the ultimate way for the company to create its own app ecosystem on top of Windows. Google has also been improving its Chrome browser's touch support with additions that will likely aid navigation on Windows 8 and Chrome OS machines in future. It's not clear when the Chrome OS-like mode will make its way into the stable channel for Windows 8, but Google's ecosystem on top of Microsoft's own Windows platform is on the way and it could be the next major battle ground for control over desktop computing.
Thanks, 50CalPotato!
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06 Oct 00:25
The PlayStation 4's DualShock 4 controller will have compatibility "for basic functions" on Windows PCs out of the box, Shuhei Yoshida, President of Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed via Twitter.
When asked on Twitter if Sony would release a driver for the DualShock 4 to make it compatible with Windows PCs, Yoshida tweeted back, "the analog sticks and buttons will work just fine." When pressed if this meant the controller would feature Windows compatibility by default, Yoshida responded it would, for "basic functions." What those functions are remains to be seen.
What's also unclear is whether Windows will recognize the DualShock 4 as a DualShock 4. Many non-Microsoft controllers feature the XInput API, which makes them register to the computer as though they were an Xbox controller. The current-generation DualShock 3 lacks Xinput, so it would mark a significant change if the DualShock 4 supported it. When asked if games on PC would automatically recognize the controller as a DualShock 4, Yoshida said to wait until a post-launch field report.
Waiting may not be the most fun thing in the world to do, but this wait won't be too long: the PlayStation 4 launches November 15 in North America.
DualShock 4 will work with Windows for 'basic functions'
by Sophie Prell
The PlayStation 4's DualShock 4 controller will have compatibility "for basic functions" on Windows PCs out of the box, Shuhei Yoshida, President of Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed via Twitter.When asked on Twitter if Sony would release a driver for the DualShock 4 to make it compatible with Windows PCs, Yoshida tweeted back, "the analog sticks and buttons will work just fine." When pressed if this meant the controller would feature Windows compatibility by default, Yoshida responded it would, for "basic functions." What those functions are remains to be seen.
What's also unclear is whether Windows will recognize the DualShock 4 as a DualShock 4. Many non-Microsoft controllers feature the XInput API, which makes them register to the computer as though they were an Xbox controller. The current-generation DualShock 3 lacks Xinput, so it would mark a significant change if the DualShock 4 supported it. When asked if games on PC would automatically recognize the controller as a DualShock 4, Yoshida said to wait until a post-launch field report.
Waiting may not be the most fun thing in the world to do, but this wait won't be too long: the PlayStation 4 launches November 15 in North America.
DualShock 4 will work with Windows for 'basic functions' originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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06 Oct 00:24
U.S. SEAL Team Seizes Somali Militant Behind Mall Attack
A Navy SEAL team seized a senior leader of the Shabab militant group from his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility.
06 Oct 00:09
Microsoft Reportedly Seeks To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices
by timothy
quantr draws your attention to a Bloomberg report that Microsoft has reached out to HTC to see if the company would be interested in adding Windows as a second OS to its Android handsets. From the Bloomberg story: "Its willingness to add Windows as a second operating system underscores the lengths to which Microsoft will go to get manufacturers to carry its software. HTC, the first company to make both Windows and Android phones, hasn’t unveiled a new Windows-based handset since June and has no current plans to release any more, said one person. Microsoft, with 3.7 percent of the market, is finding it necessary to make concessions after agreeing to acquire Nokia Oyj’s handset unit, which competes with other smartphone makers. [Microsoft operating systems head Terry] Myerson was planning to visit Asia this month and meet with senior executives at Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC to discuss his proposal, one of the people said." 
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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06 Oct 00:09
You can laud this man's rambling text all you want. It lessens you in MY eyes, but really, who cares? My hope is that you, being one of the most talented young comic-book scribes in the business today (man or woman - gender does not matter), can see that standing by a statement that demeans someone solely based on their gender (male or female - again, does not matter) is poorly conceived. You have MANY young male fans, some of whom may try their hand at writing someday. Be responsible. Please.
firehosehmm
>standing by a statement that demeans someone solely based on their gender
But here’s the thing — that’s not what happened.
Now, you’re gonna disagree with me about this because you’re very excited to scold me for my sexism and I’m gonna live with that because you’re entitled to your opinion.
My reading of Diaz was this: heteronormative masculine privilege (a collection of advantages) is something he actually views to be a *disadvantage* to the male writer. While it is lovely to be raised as the default protagonist, the cultural *disadvantage* the female writer faces having been raised in a world where she is so often denied characters of her own gender with agency with whom she can identify has conditioned her to identify with male characters, and this, in Diaz’s view is an *advantage* when it comes to writing.
The idea that this means that Women are Better Writers Than Men is a leap you are making; it’s not in the text. Diaz is saying only that women have an advantage, in his eyes, writing cross-gender — meaning men have to work harder to write fully-realized women than women do to create fully-realized men.
It’s an interesting idea.
If it meant than women were better writers than men, then my books would be better than Junot Diaz’s… and they’re not.
And while you’re getting all up in arms about things that aren’t there, you’re also missing some really powerful prose and ideas further down the piece. Like this:
The most toxic formulas in our cultures are not pass down in political practice, they’re pass down in mundane narratives. It’s our fiction where the toxic virus of sexism, racism, homophobia, where it passes from one generation to the next, and the average artist will kill you before they remove those poisons. And if you want to be a good artist, it means writing, really, about the world.
and this:
People know art, always, because they are uncomfortable. Art discomforts. The trangressiveness of art has to deal with confronting people with the real.
…which, boy, sure makes me think this awfully uncomfortable confrontation you and I are having right now might have been in the works all along, huh?
As to my responsibilities to young fans of either gender… A writer’s gonna write. Any writer who puts down the pen because of something they read on the internet…? They didn’t have it in them anyway.
If you’d like to continue wagging your finger at me, you do on it on your own time.
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06 Oct 00:07
Almost All The Shrimp Americans Eat Is Now Going Uninspected
The furlough means more than 90% of the foreign seafood Americans eat is coming through unchecked, as well as half the fruit and one-fifth of the vegetables.
06 Oct 00:06
Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, easing shutdown pain - Reuters
Washington Post |
Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, easing shutdown pain Reuters By Phil Stewart and Thomas Ferraro. WASHINGTON | Sat Oct 5, 2013 9:24pm EDT. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Saturday it would recall the vast majority of some 350,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the ... So far on Capitol Hill, no end in sight over shutdownWashington Post Boehner: 'This Isn't Some Damn Game'U.S. News & World Report One view: Shutdown's roots lie in deeply divided American politicsChicago Daily Herald NBCNews.com -KTVN -The Nation all 1,239 news articles » |
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06 Oct 00:06
NFL player discusses the allure of eSports, League of Legends
by Megan Farokhmanesh
firehoseKluwe, obv.
"Kluwe, who you can watch in the video above, is best known for his time with the Seattle Seahawks"
uhh
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By Megan Farokhmanesh on Oct 05, 2013 at 6:00p
Athletes who participate in physical sports and those active in the eSports scene are more alike than most people think, according to a recent interview with League of Legends fan and NFL player Chris Kluwe.
Kluwe, who you can watch in the video above, is best known for his time with the Seattle Seahawks. According to the NFL punter, the amount of time players put into their game is the same amount of time athletes train for their sports. Kluwe calls games like League of Legends very much a "mental sport."
"For me, eSports is really this burgeoning culture of actual sports in that you have young adults competing in a team oriented fashion," Kluwe said. "What we're seeing with eSports right now is that beginning part where it's growing in popularity and people are starting to realize, ‘hey, this is something I can watch. This is something I can be entertained by, and this is something I can do.'"
The 2013 League of Legends World Championship came to a close yesterday with the final match between SK Telecom T1 and Royal Club. For more on the tournament, check out our guides on the event and its players, teams and stories.
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06 Oct 00:03
'Half-Life 3' trademark disappears from European system, dampening fans' dreams
by Dante D'Orazio
firehoseeven better
'Half-Life 3' trademark disappears from European system, dampening fans' dreams | The Verge
By Dante D'Orazio on October 5, 2013 06:21 pm
It doesn't take much to get Half-Life fans stirred up about the long-rumored third installment of the legendary Valve first-person shooter. Earlier this week fans discovered documentation that appeared to show that Valve filed to trademark "Half-Life 3" in Europe, but the paperwork has now disappeared from website for the EU's Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. The original documentation said the trademark was filed on behalf of Valve Corporation by firm Casalonga & Associés on September 29th, but it's possible that it was all a hoax. Don't think for a minute this will fizzle speculation about the title, however: the internet's obsession with the sequel spiraled out of control long ago. For now Valve's biggest (official) project is its Steam Box designed to help PCs take over the living room. It's not Half-Life 3, but it's certainly ambitious.
- Via Polygon
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05 Oct 20:53
1975 called, and it wants its sexist author profile back
by Brigid Alverson
firehose"Isabel Greenberg is the new face of comics. Not just because one look at this petite, pretty blonde confounds the lingering cliché that comics are created by spotty adult males in unwashed Spider-Man T-shirts."
" ‘I’m super-excited,’ she lights up, perched on the edge of her seat as if poised to flit around the room like Tinkerbell."
05 Oct 17:55
Space Snake Is Bored
by Justin Boyd
Space Snake! He’s right there! Looks like the NASA dudes have some time on their hands right now, even if they didn’t even realize it.
–INVISIBLE BREAD TUMBLR–
Have you followed the Invisible Bread Tumblr yet? Yes? Then you might have to follow it again! Sorry about that.
Due to some annoying Tumblr things, I had to delete and recreate the Invisible Bread Tumblr, so please refollow! Or follow for the first time!
I’ll be posting comics there as well as little mini-comics and doodles, so please follow and share and do nice things.
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05 Oct 17:55
"Vaccines. And now my kids don't die."
by Jason Kottke
What if there were a new class of wonder drugs for children that prevented some of the worst diseases in history with very limited side effects...would you take them?
Some people don't "trust" that wacky "science" though.
What's so confounding is that many of the parents requesting exemptions for their children cite specious, disproven fears -- such as that the vaccine could cause autism -- many of which were based on a fraudulent, retracted study or fringe research published in non-peer-reviewed journals. And the rest of the country hasn't been as successful as Massachusetts in containing measles infections. Earlier this year, an intentionally unvaccinated 17-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, was infected with measles while on a trip to the United Kingdom. Because he lived in a community with a large number of other deliberately unvaccinated children, the virus quickly spread. By the time the outbreak was contained, 58 people had been infected -- making it the largest outbreak in the country in more than 15 years. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 159 total cases between January and August, which puts 2013 on track to record the most domestic measles infections since the disease was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000.
Declared eliminated! [Hair-tearing-out noise]
Tags: medicine science vaccines video
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05 Oct 17:49
How to Grow Your Personal Brand When You're an Introvert
by Dorie Clark
firehoseyour brand, your brand, your brand
I had just finished a talk at a leading technology company when an engineer approached me. “I liked your ideas about personal branding, and I can see how they’d work,” he told me. “But most of them aren’t for me—I’m an introvert. Is there anything I can do?” What he didn’t realize is that (like an estimated one-third to one-half of the population) I’m one, too.
    
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05 Oct 17:47
How to Enable NTFS Write Support in Mac OS X
by Paul Horowitz
OS X has always been able to read NTFS drives, but tucked away in Mac OS X is a hidden option to enable write support to drives formatted as NTFS (NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is a proprietary file system format for Microsoft Windows). Enabling NTFS write support on the Mac is fairly technical and it’s not officially supported by Apple, making it an experimental feature that is best left in the hands of advanced users who understand the process and the potential repercussions.
Because this feature is officially unsupported by Apple, NTFS should not be considered a reliable cross-platform file system for moving files between a Mac and a Windows PC, users will still want to format drives for the FAT file system for optimal Mac to/from PC drive compatibility with full read and write support (perhaps a better solution for many users would be to use samba networking and share files directly through a local network between the PC and Mac in question). Additionally, the lack of official support suggests there could be the potential for something to go wrong, either in the form of kernel panics or even theoretical data loss on the NTFS drive. Accordingly, such a feature may be best as a last resort and should not be used with important data on the Windows drive without having adequate backups of those files.
Comfortable with all of that? Great, we’ll cover two different ways to enable NTFS write support in OS X, this must be used on a per-drive basis and it requires the usage of the command line.
Enable OS X NTFS Write Support Using Drive UUID
Though it’s slightly more complicated than the drive-name based approach mentioned below, this is really the best method for precision.
Connect the NTFS drive to the Mac, then retrieve the NTFS drives UUID with the following command string:diskutil info /Volumes/DRIVENAME | grep UUID
With the resulting UUID, use the following command to append the UUID with NTFS read and write support to /etc/fstab:
sudo echo "UUID=ENTER_UUID_HERE none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse" >> /etc/fstab
The NTFS drive will likely not appear on the desktop by default, but you can get access to it in the /Volumes/ directory by opening that folder in the Finder with the following command:
open /Volumes
If you do want to see the drive on the desktop (assuming you have the desktop shown, of course), you can make an Finder alias with a symbolic link:
sudo ln -s /Volumes/DRIVENAME ~/Desktop/DRIVENAME
You can also use the experimental NTFS write mounting with a drive name rather than UUID, which we’ll go over next.
Enable NTFS Write Support with the Drive Name
For precision I prefer to use the UUID method, but you can also add NTFS write support by using the Windows drives name by using the following command:
sudo echo "LABEL=DRIVE_NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse" >> /etc/fstab
Because this uses the sudo command you will need to enter an admin password to be able to execute the entire command properly. This command string is appending the drive name to the end of the /etc/fstab file, because /etc/ is a system directory you need to have superuser access to write to files in that directory, thus the requisite sudo prefix.
For example, adding read/write support to an NTFS drive named “WINDOWS8″ would look like the following:
sudo echo "LABEL=WINDOWS8 none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse" >> /etc/fstab
If the drive has as complex name, use the UUID method mentioned above, or rename the NTFS drive in Windows before attempting to mount it with write support.
Again, you’ll want to look in /Volumes/ to find the newly mounted Windows NTFS drive with full read and write support. As mentioned already, it can also be helpful to create a symbolic link on the OS X Desktop to easily access the mounted NTFS drive:
sudo ln -s /Volumes/DRIVENAME ~/Desktop/DRIVENAME && open ~/Desktop/DRIVENAME
There are a variety of easier but older tools to automatically complete the processes mentioned above, but the aforementioned NTFS Mounter utility seems to have stopped working post-Snow Leopard, and thus modern versions of OS X from Mountain Lion to Mavericks will want to use the command line approach instead. There are also third party paid apps available to provide NTFS support to OS X, which may be better options for enterprise environments where an experimental feature is not considered reliable enough to deploy.
05 Oct 17:47
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05 Oct 17:46
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05 Oct 17:44
Area Four
by duncan
firehosevia saucie
of all the thing's I'd associate with A4, "their love of punk and hip hop music" is never ever one of them
American in Cambridge, MA
Designed by Korn Design.
The owners of Area Four have channeled their love of punk and hip hop music into their Cambridge, Mass, restaurant through their work ethic, the fast-paced feel, and their commitment to local and sustainable sourcing. In return, Korn Design translated this disposition into the restaurant's brand and menus with a hand-made feel and references to established punk and underground hip hop styles.
Visit Area Four.
For bigger menu images see this post at Art of the Menu
05 Oct 17:41
6 Known Issues With The iPhone 5s And iOS 7 — And How To Deal With Them
firehose7, actually
1. Poorly calibrated sensors. Fix: "taking them back to the Apple Store and swapping them out for new ones;" new phones may still have bad sensors
2. "the iPhone 5 in particular is seeing some serious battery drainage". Fix: many, many settings tweaks
3. "since the launch of iOS 7, a percentage of users are now unable to send iMessages." Fix: "restart your iOS device, and crossing your fingers that does the trick. If it doesn't, just turn off iMessage"
4. "Parallax Inducing Motion Sickness" Fix: Turn off parallax, which doesn't turn off all parallax
5. "Students Bypassing iPad Restrictions" Fix: lol whatever
6. "Getting Logged Out of Apps" Fix: "Background Refresh is the issue, so they updated their app to remove it."
7. "Typing Delays" Fix: "try resetting the iPhone by going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings", or "toggling the iCloud setting Documents & Data to off, then back to on again"
whew that is so much easier than all the things I had to do to make Android work out of the box
With the launch of iOS 7 and the iPhone 5s last month, we've got a whole new batch of issues to deal with. Here are six major iOS- and iPhone-related problems that many users are experiencing and how to deal with them.
05 Oct 17:36
Lawyers never intended for EA to stop making NCAA Football games
by Samit Sarkar
firehose'According to Aragon, there's no language in the settlement agreement that prevents EA from continuing to develop and publish college football games. In fact, said Aragon, "There's really nothing about future name, image or likeness use [in the agreement].
"There's nothing stopping [EA] from making the game, so long as they don't use players' names, images or likenesses. Or [they could] pay the students, which they didn't really agree to," said Aragon.
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"If the NCAA would allow student-athletes to receive some compensation for appearing in video games, that's something that we would be amenable to and would certainly listen to as part of a settlement, but we haven't heard anything yet," said Aragon.'
For Electronic Arts, the maker of the NCAA Football series of college football video games, the long court battle in the collegiate athlete player-likeness lawsuit is ending — as is the series itself, at least for now. But that wasn't the goal of the lawyers for the athletes.
"We would've been happy to have the game go forward. It was never our intent to not have this game [continue]," said Leonard Aragon, partner at the law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP and co-lead counsel for the players, in a phone interview with Polygon this week.
The court case encompasses an antitrust suit filed by Ed O'Bannon (formerly of the University of California, Los Angeles) as well as right-of-publicity suits filed by Sam Keller (formerly of Arizona State University and the University of Nebraska), Ryan Hart (formerly of Rutgers University) and Shawne Alston (formerly of West Virginia University). EA, the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), an organization that handles licensing for dozens of schools, are named as defendants in the suits, which charge that the three companies profit from the players without compensating them in media such as EA's NCAA Football games.
Last week, EA and the CLC filed papers in court to say they had reached a settlement with the student-athletes, later reported to be in the amount of $40 million. That would leave the NCAA as the sole defendant in the proceeding, and the NCAA indicated last month that it is prepared to continue fighting.
In addition, EA said last week that it will not release a new college football title in 2014, after indicating over the summer that it would press ahead in spite of the lawsuit. That means that for now, this year's NCAA Football 14 will be the last entry in the 20-year-old franchise.
Aragon declined to comment on the reported amount of the settlement, but did provide a few details about the nature of the agreement between his clients, EA and the CLC.
"That's not us. We didn't tell them to do that," said Aragon, when asked to comment on EA's cancellation of next year's college football title. "We would be fine if they published a game."
there's no language that prevents EA from continuing to make college football games
According to Aragon, there's no language in the settlement agreement that prevents EA from continuing to develop and publish college football games. In fact, said Aragon, "There's really nothing about future name, image or likeness use [in the agreement].
"There's nothing stopping [EA] from making the game, so long as they don't use players' names, images or likenesses. Or [they could] pay the students, which they didn't really agree to," said Aragon.
The allocation and eventual delivery of the settlement funds remains a question mark. Aragon said the parties have agreed to a settlement in principle, but still have to figure out details such as the way in which the money is distributed. That's because the case contains different groups of student-athletes.
"The antitrust plaintiffs — the people who are alleging the antitrust violation — that's a much larger class than what we call the right-of-publicity plaintiffs. Because a lot of those players simply aren't in the video game," Aragon explained. All the right-of-publicity plaintiffs appear in the games, and while the lawyers haven't figured out the exact numbers yet, Aragon said that there are approximately 100,000 right-of-publicity players and about twice as many antitrust athletes, which puts the total at 300,000 or so.
Aragon went on to note that since the antitrust players don't appear in EA's games, they can't claim a lot of economic value to their name, image or likeness. Thus, they don't have much of an argument to receive financial damages in the settlement — or at least, not nearly as good of an argument as the right-of-publicity plaintiffs. So it's likely that the latter group will get paid more than the former group.
"We would've been happy to have the game go forward"
But there's a bigger question even after the money is divvied up: Will current student-athletes be able to receive the money immediately? According to the NCAA's eligibility rules, athletes cannot profit from their name while they are in school — a stipulation that was the basis of these lawsuits in the first place.
The NCAA has not yet indicated if it will allow current players to claim funds from this settlement. But earlier this year, when Texas A&M University star Johnny Manziel filed suit to protect his nickname, "Johnny Football," the NCAA said it would allow players to keep funds received as the result of a legal action.
Aragon noted that there's nothing in this settlement about the potential for EA and the CLC to pay players for their likenesses in the future, a setup that would allow EA to bring back the video game series.
"If the NCAA would allow student-athletes to receive some compensation for appearing in video games, that's something that we would be amenable to and would certainly listen to as part of a settlement, but we haven't heard anything yet," said Aragon.
In the meantime, after canceling next year's game, EA combined the NCAA Football developers at EA Tiburon with the studio's Madden NFL team, and laid off a number of employees from both teams in the process. A representative for EA declined to provide specifics on the personnel cuts to Polygon, but said that at this time, the company has completed the layoffs that resulted from the cancellation of the game.